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Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Tuesday, 11 August 2015. Source: Latest News
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Mid-morning roundup of labour news on Monday, 11 August 2015
In our Monday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Friday, 7 August 2015. Source: Latest News
Mining jobs crisis: Can the task team cut it?
City Press writes that the mining sector faces a “perfect storm” that poses a massive challenge to emergency talks by trade unions, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the Chamber of Mines, according to the Chamber’s CEO, Roger Baxter. Source: Latest News
Harmony Gold the spanner in the works in the gold wage negotiations
Mineweb writes that Harmony Gold is at the centre of the deadlock that seems to have been reached in the gold wage negotiations. Source: Latest News
Amcu breaks the silence on long hours, short pay on gold mines
Dick Forslund, economist at the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), writes that in the gold mining wage negotiations the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has asked that the practice of “stay overtime” be addressed. Source: Latest News
Steel-making firms meet today with unions over looming job cuts
EWN reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), Solidarity and the United Association of SA (Uasa) will today meet with the CEOs of steel-making companies to discuss how to manage impending retrenchments. Source: Latest News
Two deadly mine accidents for Harmony Gold in one week
Fin24 reports that a Harmony Gold worker died in an accident at its Joel mine in the Free State on Thursday, the second fatality at the gold mining company last week. Source: Latest News
Unions ‘prevent hiring of good foreign teachers’, says Jonathan Jansen
Pretoria News reports that respected academic Professor Jonathan Jansen says pressure from trade unions prevents the hiring of qualified foreign teachers who are legally in the country to fill vacant teaching posts. Source: Latest News
‘Ludicrous’ that some gold miners still get R4,000 a month, says labour expert
The Citizen reports that labour expert Terry Bell says he is hopeful, but not optimistic, about a solution being found in the gold mining sector wage talks. Last week, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), Solidarity and the United Association of SA (Uasa)...
UDM’s Holomisa laments plight of Marikana widows
SABC News reports that United Democratic Movement leader General Bantu Holomisa says women, especially in the mining areas, are still encountering difficulties 21 years into the democratic dispensation. Source: Latest News